Comparison

loopdaloop vs Wave Slicer

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

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About

loopdaloop

Features
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loopdaloop is a beat maker that grooves the moment you touch it — and hands you the controls the moment you want them. Tap a pad and a beat, a bass line or a pad starts playing, on the beat, in key, already swinging. Hold an orb and a halo of moves fans out around it: make it busier or calmer, flip the pattern, swap the instrument, shift the octave, draw the beat by hand, grab the tone, ride the faders. Nothing you do can be out of time or out of key. Everything you do lands on the next bar. GROOVING IN ONE TAP • Add sound: a surprise voice lands on the deck and speaks right away — a kit, a bass, a lead, a pad, a texture. • Every pattern swings: a swing groove and light humanization are built in, and a groove readout lets you dial it from straight to deep. • Fill, drop, lift, flip, more hits, fewer hits, half-time, double-time: one tap each, quantized, self-resolving. Mash buttons, get an arrangement. • Whole-deck warps: echo, space, dark, crush, phaser, flanger, a Leslie cabinet, auto-wah, pump — and you can see them. Echo ripples the sky, space hazes it, the Leslie spins around its orb. TAKING CONTROL • Hold an orb for its halo: busier, calmer, half-time, double-time, flip, swap, octave up and down, duplicate, tone, faders, edit, banish. • Draw the beat: a 16-step grid per sound. Drums get a row per voice, melodies a row per note of the key — so anything you draw stays in key by construction, and it sounds the moment you paint it. • Sounds you can shape: a four-band EQ on every sound, drawn as one curve. Drag a node and hear the band sweep. • A fader for every hit: mix the kit live — kick, snare, clap, hats, toms, ride, crash — while it keeps playing. • Paint the chords: a harmony lane with one chord per bar. Bass, lead and pads follow it, voice-led, never clashing. • Melt anything into anything: drag one orb onto another and in one bar they become a single new instrument sharing the timbre and rhythm of both. • A stage you can hear: the band stands in front of a listener, and every sound plays from where its orb stands. Carry an orb left and it moves left; drums and bass hold the centre. Walk the listener through the band and the mix follows. • Two faders on every orb: down for the filter, across for the echo. Hold a fader to swap in a tape delay, filtered echo, ping pong, flanger, phaser, bitcrush, autopan, stereolizer, auto envelope, spring or church reverb. • Loop any move: press an orb or a fader, then drag — it loops. • Infinite undo. Every move on the deck can be walked back to the start of the session. DRUMS THAT RING TRUE • Fourteen drum machines, synthesized on your phone the way the originals work: analog circuits that ring on when you hit them fast, sampling machines with their own clocks, bit depths and chokes, hats and cymbals that shimmer. No samples, ever. Basses, leads and pads with accent, slide, detune and drive. • Seventeen drum styles — house, disco, funk, pop, boom bap, trap, drill, grime, electro, big beat, big room, rolling techno, 2-step, half-time, footwork, gqom, dembow — written to groove, not to fill. Every sound you add is picked for the tempo and the style already playing. • 14 chord journeys and 7 moods. The whole deck follows the harmony; the drums are tuned to the key too. • Take the kits with you: "loopdaloop drums" is an Audio Unit instrument for GarageBand, Logic and any AU host — seventy presets over MIDI, tune and decay per voice. SONGS AND SCENES • Capture the deck as a scene, tap scenes in any order, keep songs. Every new song rolls a fresh tempo, key, mood and groove, and every song remembers its own. • Line scenes up in the sequencer lane: tap a step and the song plays itself from there. • Everything is on your phone, fully offline. No account, no samples to download, no subscription to play. There is no manual because there is no wrong move. Tap. Hold. Drag. It's already grooving — you're in control.

About

Wave Slicer

Precisely cut audio samples by zooming to individual waveforms. Apply a full effect chain, draw custom amplitude envelopes, and create seamless loops. Export high-quality WAV files directly from your device.

Highlights
  • Precise waveform editing
  • Full effect chain
  • Custom amplitude envelopes
  • Seamless loop creation
  • High-quality WAV export
  • Direct microphone recording
Features
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Wave Slicer cuts a sound down to the piece you actually want. Load a track, record something, or send a file to it from anywhere on your phone — then zoom in until you can see the individual samples and cut exactly there. WHAT IT DOES A waveform that stays smooth on a ten-minute file and keeps going down to sample level. Drag the edges of a selection, slide the whole selection along, or draw a new one. Every edge snaps to a zero crossing, so a cut never clicks. A full effect chain that you hear while you turn it. Transpose by semitones, high-pass and low-pass with resonance, tanh saturation, bitcrush and sample rate reduction, echo with feedback, and a reverb that can ring out for eight seconds past the end of the slice. An amplitude envelope you draw by hand. Tap to add a point, drag to move it, bend the curve between two points. The same envelope drawing as the pitch curve in Drum Rack. Fades on both ends, and a loop crossfade that folds the tail over the head so a loop comes round without a seam. Export as a 16 or 24-bit WAV, with TPDF dither on 16-bit. The file lands where you choose to save it, named so you can find it again in a DAW browser. Record straight from the microphone when you want to sample something in the room. Echo cancellation and noise suppression stay off, because those are built for speech and ruin anything worth sampling. Twelve sounds are built in to start with, including two drum loops on the grid, so there is something to cut the moment you open it. WHAT IT DOES NOT DO No account. No sign-in. No advertising. No analytics. No tracking. Audio you load, record or export never leaves your device. The app asks the internet for exactly one thing: a small text file holding the current links shown on the last screen. FROM THE LAB Wave Slicer is part of Lumlux Art Lab, a set of free browser tools for people who make music. The same slicer runs on the website, so you can try it before installing anything. Made in Antwerp by FDR-Sound.

Screenshots

loopdaloop4 screens
Wave Slicer4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Wave Slicer at every 4 days against loopdaloop's every 3 weeks. Wave Slicer also leads on device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

loopdaloop ships an update every 3 weeks, Wave Slicer every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 6 level
loopdaloop versus Wave Slicer: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterloopdaloopWave Slicer
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Number of ratings—1 — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 4 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
Monetization—Free
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS17.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size4 MB20 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperChristophe CarveniusFrank De Rop

In-app purchases

None

loopdaloop

No in-app purchases

None

Wave Slicer

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is loopdaloop free?
loopdaloop is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Wave Slicer free?
Wave Slicer is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do loopdaloop or Wave Slicer have ads?
Neither loopdaloop nor Wave Slicer shows ads.
Which is updated more often, loopdaloop or Wave Slicer?
loopdaloop ships an update every 3 weeks, and Wave Slicer every 4 days. Most recently, loopdaloop was updated on October 31, 2026 and Wave Slicer on November 6, 2026.

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